
Duane Isely
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LOCATION: Ames, IA, United States
Professor of Botany, Iowa State University, Ames. Author of Leguminosae of the Southeastern United States and others.
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Fabales, order of dicotyledonous flowering plants in the Rosid I group among the core eudicots. The order comprises 4 families (Fabaceae, Polygalaceae, Quillajaceae, and Surianaceae), 754 genera, and more than 20,000 species. However, more than 95 percent of the genera and species belong to…
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